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So You Want The Sound Of Music?

Yesterday, an interesting question came my way from US-based Rachelle Black, who has the lively blog Pasture Musings. Her question was:

Could you help me figure out how to add one of my children's music clips to my blog?

Since I’ve never loaded audio files on my blog, I would normally have checked the discussion thread at Google Blogger Help but I happened to mention the query to Portugal-based Terry Fletcher – and got an immediate email response. This was what he said. ``There are several ways, but they're all 'complicated'. Not to say that they're `not possible’, it is just that you should understand that 'free' hosts are reluctant to host 'streaming audio' because of the bandwidth implications. In short, it doesn't pay them to do so! OK, with that out of the way, let us face the 'problem'. The easiest way, of course, is if you have your own server, or pay for somebody to host you on a shared server. I will make another post on the 'Sandbox' explaining in detail how to go about it, and pointing you at the Javascript and other files you will need.’’

Details of Terry’s answer can be found on the post Music, Music at the new but invaluable resource Terry’s Sandbox.

And we have additional information from Karoline, who writes the blog Wednesday’s Child. She told me: ``Esnips also uploads clips music photos, etc. Once you upload to your file you can turn it into an MP3 or wma file which you can then insert on your front page. You have the option of self-start or have it started manually. Hope this might help.’’